Oct-16 Former Ashland Grizzly and current Oregon State University pitcher Sam Gaviglio received high praise from OSU baseball coach and two-time national coach of the year Pat Casey recently. Casey talked to the Portland Tribune about the potential of the 2010 Beavers. Here's an excerpt:
Gaviglio sprang onto the scene in sensational fashion, earning freshman All-America honors with a sterling 10-1 record and a 2.73 ERA. The 6-1, 170-pound right-hander from Newport began as a middle reliever and made only six starts, but he became the first rook in the program’s 103-year (history) to reach double figures in victories.
“Sam was our most effective pitcher last year, coming in with no expectations levels, no hype,” Casey says. “When you think about what Sam did ... go back in the history of Oregon State baseball – nothing compares to what he did as a freshman. He started out as a guy pitching in the middle of a game; then all of a sudden, he got pretty good.”
There was more Ashland news at the end of the article - apparently, Ashland pitcher/outfielder Ian Kendall has verbally committed to Oregon State. Oct-14 If the Ashland High football team is left out of the playoffs this season, it won't be because a coin didn't flip in the Grizzlies' favor.
That's because the Southern Sky Conference will from now on settle ties with the Azzi Plan, a system that takes into account margin of victory.
Ashland missed the playoffs last season despite finishing in a three-way tie atop the Southern Sky Conference standings and earning a co-league championship.
Here's today's release:
Football: Azzi Plan: Will be used in the event of a tie, or multiple tie, to determine league ranking and playoff position when head to head
competition can not be used. This is to take the place of Section 4 C "Determination of District Representation", Three way ties with flip the coin.
· During each league game, teams may accumulate up to a maximum of plus or minus 14 points. If team A beats team B, 24-10, Team A receives +14 Azzi points, where as Team B receives -14 Azzi Points.
· There is no advantage to beat a team by more than 14 points.
· The team with the highest number of Azzi points with regard to common opponents that are playoff eligible, are then awarded the higher playoff position and league ranking in a tie, or multi-tie situation.
· Teams that are not in the playoff picture at the end of the season will not be used for Azzi points consideration with regard to the playoff eligible teams and not be considered common opponents.
· If teams are tied after utilizing the Azzi plan, the team that has given up the fewest points per game with regard to common opponents will be ranked higher in the league standings or playoff position.
· The Azzi plan has no bearing on the league championship or co-league champions. It is a plan for league rankings and playoff representatives when there is a tie and can not be determined by head to head competition. Oct-14 Here's the release, courtesy of Ashland High football coach Charlie Hall.
The Ashland-Crater varsity football game, scheduled for Friday, October 16th is cancelled. Due to serious flu conditions throughout the team, a decision was based on the health of each individual. Practices were cancelled Monday and Tuesday in an attempt to stop the spread of the flu. Over the last two days we have averaged over 20 players missing from school. Some of the sick players reported to a team meeting this morning, symptom free, but still coughing and weak as a result of the sickness.
On the advice of local health care authorities, our staff is extremely concerned and cautious about the risk of secondary infection related to this strain of flu. Having at-risk players return prior to a full recovery would not be in their best interest. Having players prolong their recovery is certainly not in the best interest of the program.
Based on a preseason contingency created by the Southern Sky Conference Athletic Directors the game will be forfeited. Ashland High School will resume play against Mazama High School, October 23 in Klamath Falls.
Oct-13 The swine-flu striken Ashland High football team may have to forfeit Friday's Southern Sky Conference opener against Crater.
I asked AHS athletic director Karl Kemper about it today and here's his e-mail reply:
"As of yesterday we had 22 kids out sick, 14 of 18 starters. We cancelled practice yesterday and today. Our plan would be to start from the “bottom up” cancelling frosh football first and trying to piece together 2 teams, then JV and so on. I can’t give you a timeline for a decision on Friday’s game . . . We will assess whether we can put together a team to safely compete at the varsity level and make the best choice for the health of our kids." Oct-9 Bend 24, Ashland 0
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Score by quarter |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
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Ashland |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Bend |
0 |
3 |
7 |
14 |
24 |
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Scoring summary |
Qtr |
Time |
Scoring play |
AHS |
BHS |
|
Bend |
2 |
5:16 |
#4 Barrett, S. 27 yd FG |
0 |
3 |
|
Bend |
3 |
5:53 |
#22 Fowlds, S. 78 yd punt return (#1 Crook, A. kick) |
0 |
10 |
|
Bend |
4 |
6:24 |
#38 10 yd run (#1 Crook, A. kick) |
0 |
17 |
|
Bend |
4 |
3:09 |
#13 Clair, C. 15 yd pass to #5 Rodriguez, A. (#1 Crook, A. kick) |
0 |
24 |
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Team stats |
Ashland |
Bend |
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First downs |
11 |
15 |
|
(FD rushing - passing - penalty) |
3-5-3 |
10-5-0 |
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Rushing yardage |
64 |
209 |
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Pass completions - attempts |
11-25 |
5-16 |
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Passing yardage |
129 |
98 |
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Pass touchdowns - interceptions |
0-1 |
1-1 |
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Total plays |
44 |
59 |
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Total offense |
193 |
307 |
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Fumbles - lost |
1-0 |
1-1 |
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Penalties - yards |
11-78 |
9-71 |
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Defensive sacks - yards lost |
0-0 |
2-12 |
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Time of possession |
20:19 |
27:06 |
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3rd down efficiency |
3 for 11 |
4 for 11 |
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4th down efficiency |
0 for 2 |
1 for 4 |
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Punts - average |
9-43.6 |
2-33.5 |
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—Ashland, Shahin 6-28, Volz 4-27, Scarminach 7-10, No. 39 1-(minus 1), Greenbaum 1-(minus 2). Bend, Bergrud 22-103, McLain 13-92, Norgard 3-5, Heal 1-4, Clair 3-3, Lammars 1-2.
PASSING—Ashland, Scarminach 11-25-1 129. Bend, Clair 5-16-1 98.
RECEIVING—Ashland, Costantino 2-40, Hall 2-40, Stone 2-19, Shahin 2-0, Dodds 1-16, Krant 1-7, Resch 1-7. Bend, Barrett 3-52, Fowlds 1-31, Rodriguez 1-15.
MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. Oct-7
Living is easy. Living healthy is difficult. Living the way I am now is almost impossible.
This is a protest, basically. Two months ago, a conversation in the Zavala household went something like this:
Female: "Hey, let’s go eight weeks without sugar and white flour."
Male: (Working diligently on an important story, possibly sweating) "Uh maybe, let’s talk about that later."
Female: "And we should throw in caffeine, too."
Male: (typing madly, checking his watch) "Sorry … I can’t really …"
Female: "Oh, and TV. And movies."
Male: "What?!?"
Much debate followed and ultimately a deal was struck. So here I am, basically living on tuna fish, agave nectar and an assortment of plants from my back yard.
This madness has been going on for four weeks and is supposed to continue through the end of the month, but I’m not sure I’ll cross the finish line. The TV/movies part I can handle (thanks to the internet). But, no sugar? No white flower? Seriously, it’s pretty much impossible to find anything worth eating that does not have one of those two ingredients? Take a trip to virtually any supermarket in the U.S., close your eyes and throw a rock over your shoulder. Now run, because there’s a pretty good chance you just hit a fat guy purchasing something with sugar in it.
The caffeine ban isn’t a walk in the park, either, thanks to zoning laws that apparently require a coffee stand every 25 feet. I pass — no joke — nine stands on my way in to work every morning. There are two Dutch Bros. within four blocks of my home, and another less than 100 yards from the Tidings back door. Toss a rock out your car window, and there’s a good chance you’ll hit that fat guy again, holding a mocha with two pumps of chocolate.
I know there are plenty of people out there who practice such a diet, have done so for years and believe that their meals are every bit as tasty as the gut-busting abominations concocted by the average soda-swilling, hot dog-inhaling American. But those people have lost touch with reality. They’re like 10-year-old boy at the beach who doesn’t realize the ocean is freezing because his feet are numb. Nobody will ever be able to convince me that a veggie burger on whole wheat is better than a Whopper. If that were true, hospitals everywhere would go out of business, 24-hour gyms would close over night and the U.S. would be overrun by cows.
I believe I can make it through the end of the month, but it won’t be easy. Every day is more difficult than the one before. Worse, this experiment isn’t changing my opinion of my former eating habits. Quite the contrary. It’s reinforcing every bad habit I’ve ever had. If food and pleasure weren’t hopelessly intertwined before, they are now. For example, just last weekend I discovered that camping without s’mores is completely pointless.
The healthy living isn’t helping the home life either. My wife and I are watching each other like hawks. I arrived home late the other day and she accused me of sneaking a coffee. I told her I was with another woman. She was relieved. Login to Add Comment | |
